1964 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1964.
Events
April events
- April 6 - Freight transportation on Alaska Railroad between Fairbanks and Anchorage resumes after repairs from an earthquake that occurred on March 27.[1]
- April 20 - The Skokie Swift high-speed rapid transit route of the Chicago Transit Authority 'L' system begins service between the Howard Street Terminal in Rogers Park and Dempster Street in Skokie.
- April 29 - The Keiō Dōbutsuen Line in Japan opens.
June events
- June 6 - Southern Railway 4501 is taken down to Chattanooga, Tennessee for restoration by the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.
- June 15 - The 2000-series rapid transit cars (2001–2180), built by Pullman-Standard of Chicago, Illinois, are placed in service on the Chicago "L" system. These cars represent the first generation of the Chicago Transit Authority High Performance Family.
- June 19 - United States President Lyndon B. Johnson presides over the groundbreaking ceremonies for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).
- June 30 - End of regularly scheduled steam locomotive service on the narrow gauge White Pass and Yukon Route.[2]
July events
- July - The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 becomes law in the United States.
September events
- September 30 - The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland is formed.
October events
- October 1 - The Tōkaidō Shinkansen high-speed route commences operation in Japan; it is the first of many Shinkansen routes to be constructed.
- October 9 - End of District line service to Hounslow on the London Underground.
November events
- November 5 - Swaziland Railway opened.[3]
- November 15 - Shin-Sayama Station on what becomes the Seibu Railway's Seibu Shinjuku Line in Sayama, Saitama, Japan, is opened.[4]
December events
- December 19 - The Elektrische Bahn Stansstad–Engelberg in Switzerland reopens with a connection to the national rail network at Hergiswil and conversion to 15 kV AC railway electrification as the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg railway line.
- December 23 - Tokyo Metro Tōzai Line is opened.
Unknown date events
- The Wabash, Nickel Plate Road, Pittsburgh and West Virginia and Akron, Canton and Youngstown railroads are all merged into the Norfolk & Western.
- Swiss Federal Railways introduces its Re 4/4II series electric locomotives, built by SLM.
- Double-deck cars introduced on suburban railways in Sydney, Australia.[5]
- Benjamin Biaggini succeeds Donald Russell as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
- Donald Russell assumes the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Company, a position that was nonexistent since Hale Holden's departure in 1939.
- ALCO is purchased by the Worthington Corporation.
- The above-ground portion of Pennsylvania Railroad's Pennsylvania Station in New York City is demolished to make room for Madison Square Gardens, but the tracks remain in use today.
- Robert A. "Bob" Emerson succeeds Norris Roy Crump as president of Canadian Pacific Railway.
Accidents
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Births
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References
- ^ Alaska Railroad. "Alaska Railroad History". Archived from the original on 30 November 2002. Retrieved 6 April 2006.
- ^ Martin, Cy (1974). Gold Rush Narrow Gauge (2nd ed.). Corona del Mar, California: Trans-Anglo Books. p. 93. ISBN 0-87046-026-9.
- ^ "History of Swaziland Railway - Then & Now". Swaziland Railway. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
- ^ Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 202. ISBN 4-87366-874-3.
- ^ Richardson, Matthew (2001). The Penguin Book of Firsts. New Delhi: Penguin Books India. p. 281. ISBN 0-14-302771-9.